After installing the final section of the dock I cut out and assembled the railings on the cork board. Once these had dried I glued them onto the edge of the dock using Elmer’s wood glue. I then assembled the ramp leading down from the opening in the wall by using the provided scale lumber. The next step was to fabricate the rest of...

In previous posts I have talked about using a cork board when building certain model parts, especially docks and things of that nature. I decided that I should share some of the things that I have learned in using this. The chief advantage of using a cork board is that you can place the templates included in the model (or drawn by you as...

After adding the long expanse of the ice dock on the Union Ice Company kit, I decided that I was going to extend the dock in a “T” shape to meet the building instead of just installing a ramp for the ice. I used the template for the original ice dock to create the needed parts, though I ended up using slightly smaller material...

For the ice loading dock for the Union Ice Company kit I followed the directions for the most part. The only change that I made was to make the bracing the same for middle uprights as the ends. I did not like how the small supports recommended in the kit looked after building the first upright. I used additional scale lumber from Northwest Short...